语言学名词解释总结.docx

语言学名词解释总结
Define the following terms:
1. design feature:are features that define our human languages,such as e face that the forms of linguistic signs bear no natural relationship to their meaning.


11. duality: one design feature of human language,which refers to the property of having two levels of are composed of elements of the and each of the two levels has its own principles of organization.
12. displacement: one design feature of human language,which means human language enable their users to symbolize objects,events and concepts which are not present c in time and space,at the moment of communication.
13. phatic communion: one function of human language,which refers to the social interaction of language.
14. metalanguage: certain kinds of linguistic signs or terms for the analysis and description of particular studies.
15. macrolinguistics: he interacting study between language and language-related disciplines such as psychology,sociology,ethnograph,science of law and artificial intelligence of macrolinguistics include psycholinguistics,sociolinguistics,
anthropological linguistics,et
16. competence: language user’s underlying knowledge about the system of rules.